Died. Gordon Arnold Lonsdale (born Konan T. Molody), 48, convicted Soviet spy, whom the British exchanged for Businessman Greville Wynne in 1964; of an apparent heart attack in a Moscow suburb. Arrested in 1961 while posing as a Canadian businessman in London, Lonsdale was identified as the chief of operations of a spy ring in Britain. In 1965 he wrote a book, Spy, in which he bragged that he was also a communications aide for Colonel Rudolf Abel's famed ring in the U.S. during the 1950s.
Died. Adam Rapacki, 60, Polish Foreign Minister from 1956 to 1968, proposer of the "Rapacki Plan" for a nuclear-free zone in Central Europe; of a heart attack; in Warsaw. First suggested in 1957, the Rapacki Plan would have banned the installation of nuclear weapons in an area encompassing Poland, Czechoslovakia and East and West Germany. The Western powers rejected the idea for lack of adequate guarantees and on the grounds that a nuclear shield in West Germany was essential against the Soviet bloc's preponderance of conventional arms.
Died. Pedro Taruc, 68, ranking commander of the Hukbalahap agrarian rebel movement in the Philippines; by gunfire when he was waylaid by an army unit; in Angeles, near Clark airbase. A relative of Luis Taruc, rebel leader who surrendered to President Ramon Magsaysay in 1954, Taruc led the Huks since 1964, but failed to replenish their dwindling numbers. His death destroys the guerrilla threat to the government of President Ferdinand Marcos.
Died. Cid Ricketts Sumner, 80, Mississippi-born author of the endearing Tammy series of books about a Southern bayou waif, and mother-in-law of Author John H. Cutler (Cardinal Cushing of Boston, Honey Fitz) whose 16-year-old son was arraigned in juvenile court as a suspect in her bludgeon murder; at her Duxbury, Mass., home.
Died. Edouard Daladier, 86, thrice Premier of France in the years from 1933 to 1940, and last surviving signer of the infamous Munich Agreement; of kidney disease; in Paris. After signing the agreement in 1938 with Chamberlain, Mussolini and Hitler, Daladier rationalized: "Should 15 million Europeans have been killed in order to oblige 3,000,000 Sudetens who wished to be German to remain in Czechoslovakia?" One year later, he came to the realization that, as he put it, "Hitler does not negotiate with nations which have submitted to him. He destroys them." By then it was too late. Daladier attempted to flee to Africa to join the Resistance, was captured by Vichy collaborationists and deported to Germany.